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Subject: 
Handyboard Expansion Board
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:52:37 GMT
Original-From: 
Lellmann <wolfgang.lellmann@konstanz.netsurfAVOIDSPAM.de>
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Hi folks,

I know it's probably a bit too late, but couldn't you somehow add some
DIP-switches to the expansion board, like the ones on the 6.270 ?
This would be very nice for quickly changing the way a program works,
without hanving to recompile it.

Thanks for your time,

   Jan Lellmann



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Handyboard Expansion Board
 
Actually, unless Fred has changed the way the sensor connectors work he was quite clever in that the spacing of the I/O connectors is exactly dip switch width. Basically you can plug in a DIP switch into the I/O header and get as many switches as (...) (27 years ago, 22-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  Re: Handyboard Expansion Board
 
(...) Well if you are not using it, you could use the trim pot to drive a menu. cya! .---...---.. | Remi Desrosiers | "My Youth in Arcadia" | harlock@videotron.ca . . (27 years ago, 22-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  Re: DIP switches
 
you can use dip switches in the standard digital in ports if you either (a) solder them to male header first, or (b) insert them in a wire-wrap socket and then insert the wire-wrap socket pins into the HB sensor ports. both of these methods get (...) (27 years ago, 24-Aug-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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